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W. M. ALLYN.

. WOODEN BARREL. vNo. 337 110, Patented Mar. 2'; 1886-;

Wifnessgs: I I I fl EEK/Mia Mum ttorng L UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM M. ALLYN, OF HASTINGS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHAS.ESPENSOHIED, OF SAME PLACE.

WOODEN BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,110, dated March 2,1886.

Application filed October 17, 1885; Serial No. 180,194. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. M. ALLYN, of Hastings, in the county of Dakotaand State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wooden Barrels, 85c. and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the'accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1is a cross-section of a barrel, showing the staves in position beforebeing hooped. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the same hooped. Fig. 3is a detail section illustrating a modification. f

This invention relates to improvements in wooden vesselssuch as barrels,casks, &c. which are made up of staves bound together with hoops, andits object is to construct the same so that they will be always tight.

The invention consists in the employment of alternate hard and soft woodstaves or strips, as will be fullyunderstood from the followingdescription, and pointed out in the claims.

As heretofore constructed, wooden stave vessels, and especiallyflour-barrels, have been liable to shrink and open at their joints whenthe wood becomes dry, thus rendering the barrel leaky, and wasting thematerial contained therein.

The present invention is intended to entirely obviate these diflicultiesby providing a barrel which will be always in a tight condition.

In the drawings, A designates a barrel, which is constructed of staves Band strip 0, bound together by hoops D, in the usual manner. The stavesB are made up of any suit able hard wood, preferably oak, are of theusual size, and have their side edges made square or slightly beveledoutward, as shown in the drawings. The staves or strips 0 are narrowerand of softer wood than the staves B, being preferably only aboutthree-quarters of an inch wide. They should also be about an eighth ofan inch thicker than staves B, so that when the barrel is bound up bythe hoops their inner edges will overlap the inner edges of staves B,and form a perfectly tight joint.

To make a barrel, the staves B are set up in the usual manner, havinginterposed between their edges the strips 0, as shown in Fig. 1. Thebarrel is then bound up by the hoops, and the edges of the hard-woodstaves will be forced into the edges of the strips 0, which, being widerthan the staves, will overlap their inner edges, as shown at c, Fig. 2.

By making the edges of the hard-wood staves V-shaped, as shown inmodification, Fig. 3, the soft strips need not be thicker than thestaves; but the described construction-is the one I prefer.

It is obvious from the above description that barrels so constructedwill be always tight and cannot open joints, as the hoops will preventthe staves and strips spreading outwardly, and the bevel on staves Bwill prevent the strips and staves moving inwardly. It is also obviousthat this manner of constructing barrels can be applied to many otherwooden vessels, such as tubs, buckets, &c.

Having described my invention, I claim 1. In a wooden vessel, thecombination of alternate hard and soft wood staves, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

2. In a barrel or other wooden vessel, the combination of the hard-woodstaves and narrow soft-wood strips, thicker than the staves, andcompressed tohave their inner edges overlap the inner edges of thestaves, substantially as specified. V r

3. The combination of staves B, having beveled sides, and compressedstrips 0, entered by and overlapping the inner edges of staves B,substantially as described.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a barrel, keg, or other vesselconstructed of hardwood staves and interposed soft-wood strips boundtogether to form a close joint, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

WM. M. ALLYN.

Witnesses:

M. H. MOKAY, M. V. SEYMOUR.

